Posts from year 2011
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Winter in Berlin
Berlin in winter is not for the weak. The city shrugs off the sun like a bad hangover, wrapping itself in grey skies, freezing rain, and a cold that gets into your bones like regret. But that’s the charm, isn’t it?
The value of semantics
Bruce Lawson is one of my favorite technical speakers, and it was great to see him at @media conference in London this summer. A few days ago he wrote HTML5 Semantics which gives a nice round-up of the state of semantics in November 2011.
Visual misconceptions in movies
Movies and other media can often be a subconscious source for how we perceive travel destinations, giving a somewhat different view than reality provides.
Bourdain is back with new show
One of the best ways to get inspiration for upcoming journeys is to watch entertaining hosts embark on their adventures. There are lots of great travel shows out there, but most of them are focusing on the same monuments and all too common sights at a destination.
Banff Mountain Movie Festival
Banff is more than just the sound of Nightcrawler. It is also a town in Canada which runs a film festival during one week every year, aptly named the Banff Mountain Movie Festival.
A nice house in Palma
Palma is the largest city on Mallorca, one of the Balearic Islands which are part of Spain. A few days ago I ascended the wide stairs from the Royal garden and turned a corner.
Media queries and JavaScript
Mobile development and responsive design are frequently mentioned these days. The most widely used technique for responsive design is media queries, a CSS3 extension of the media types frequently used in HTML4 and CSS2.
Kalabalik festival in Alvesta
I spent the weekend at an old amusement park in the deepest forests of Småland. It sounds like the plot of a bad zombie-splatter movie, but it was even better.
Inspiration from Steve Jobs
The last days have seen a lot of buzz regarding Steve Jobs resigning. I guess that didn’t come as a shock, but it’s nevertheless sad to see him go.
Musings about Adobe Muse
Do you remember a thing called Dreamweaver? A decade ago it was a popular tool by Macromedia for building web sites, succeeding the infamous Microsoft Frontpage.